The mastermind behind the gang rape of a minor girl has been apprehended. Bandra police arrested Mohammed Saifudin Pathan alias Arif Mulla who, along with his friends, allegedly abducted and gang-raped a 17-year-old last month.

Police said Pathan, in his early twenties, knew the survivor, and that she and he stayed in Bandra. He had asked the girl to marry him. When the girl rejected him, a furious Pathan and his friends Firoz Haider Sayed (26), Rakesh Premalal Verma (22), Rahul Gopi Rathod (19) and Hazrat Nazir Khan (28) abducted the girl on August 6.